In today's City, Thursday November 5, there is an article about the Spiritus Mundi project Our Songs for Tomorrow, where Palestinian, Israeli and Nordic music students write a musical piece together. City writes:
"We do everything together, as one single person. Hopefully our message reaches the audience, says Rimonda Joubran, 21, from Palestine.
Together with other music students from Palestine, Israel and Sweden, Rimonda will be on stage today."
Read the entire article (in Swedish):
City 091105.pdf Spiritus Mundi and participants from also visited the afternoon show with Ehsan and Kany at the radio station Din Gata to talk about the project. Here follows an excerpt of the segment, where the participant Manar Wahhab, Palestine, talks about her experiences and how Our Songs for Tomorrow has affected her:
"I want to say something about miracles and music. Here I’m coming with the Israeli company and as a Palestinian it’s not my first time to meet Israelis. But I want to share with you, and all those hearing, my experience – this special thing that happened in just ten days. And thanks to Spiritus Mundi who let this musical project come alive. Really, this is the first time in my life that I can speak freely with Israelis, I can accept them and I can feel them and accept to love them and have feelings for them. This was really a very special thing for me and I felt this through all the days. Also for me, when I look to the eyes I really get the feeling… and really, the Israeli group is amazing. For example, I was touched by the other one, her name is Tal. She’s from the Israeli group. And while we were rehearsing at Palladium, she came to me and she kissed me on my head. I can’t forget this thing. This will stay with me for all my life. When I come back to my country, I really have a different feeling for Israelis now, not like before. It really gives me hope. Because for one moment, before I came to this project, I lost hope in everything, but with this musical project, this really big thing, I felt like there is hope. Through music, through us as people, as youths together. It’s really very interesting and very… it gets me back up and a push to continue to dream."Listen to/download the segment about Our Songs for Tomorrow
here. Also, visit Din Gata
here to see the persons participating in the interview.
The concert takes place at Palladium, Malmö, on November 5 at 6 pm.